Selling Peptides / Research Chemicals in the UK

[ZSAEurope]

Hi,

I was wandering if anyone is familiar with UK laws on research chemicals / peptides. I'm looking to setup a website importing products from China / Thailand and reselling them in the UK. But i'm not sure if this would be legal? I have seen several websites online which are openly selling these within the UK.

Some of the chemicals would be:


Ghrp-6
IGF-1
CJC-1295

Would anyone know where I can check to see if they would be legal or not?

Many Thanks

Zara

 

[smo]

IGF-1 is a banned performance enhancing drug in professional sports.

They are probably legal to sell in the UK but I strongly suggest you start with the following 2 places of information:

http://www.mhra.gov.uk/Howweregulate/index.htm
http://www.homeoffice.gov.uk/drugs/

 

[ZSAEurope]

I cant actually find anything on there about these substances as they are classified as "Research Chemicals" and not for human use. It's a massive gray area

 

[smo]

Ring the government departments from the links I posted and ask.

You will certainly need a licence to sell them as research chemicals and will be restricted in the market to which you can sell them too.

 

[SolutionLab]

Hello ZSA,


It's an old thread but I saw it up again, am very much curious as to how it's going and couldn't find your website. Hopefully, you'll get an email notification.


In regards to your query, I'd market your stuff - especially if you plan expanding into wetware - to the growing DIYbio community. There are loads of people trying new experiments and the demand is there. Legally, a lot of is a grey area but it almost never gets enforced so it comes down to the risk exposure you're willing to have.


However, and please don't take this lightly, be careful with importing this stuff from China. Thing is, on Chinese websites you'll see all sorts of stuff being advertised, some of it outright disturbing because there's just that many things one can do with X or Y that one would call run-of-the-mill research. I guess it's payback for pushing opium, banning knives locally but letting the laowai have the most messed up things.


So don't solely rely on government regulations to tell you what's ok or not - when it comes to emergent fields, they're of very limited use. Exercise moral judgment on what you're selling and how it can be misused, even - and I know this sounds odd as hell - talking to your priest/rabbi/etc about what you're doing to have the ethical perspective on things. The reason being that the risk profile you're exposing yourself to would not follow a normal distribution as it would with well-regulated stuff, but a deeply skewed one where, say, 98% of the time everything is perfectly fine but 2% of the time, someone really messes things up and you would be looking at much more than a slap on the wrist. I mean, picture yourself at the HomeBrew computer club in the 70s, surrounded by 99 Wozniaks and one Walter White (or worse).